Good (Encouraging) Stuff (Part 1)

This 100% solar community endured Hurricane Ian with no loss of power and minimal damage

The streets in this meticulously planned neighborhood were designed to flood so houses don’t. Native landscaping along roads helps control storm water. Power and internet lines are buried to avoid wind damage. This is all in addition to being built to Florida’s robust building codes.

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More of this please.

Jaywalking laws have always been automobile-supremacist and a pretext for harassment of those who would freely navigate public space while not encased in a car.

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Oh, so what are Hollywood/Rodeo cops gonna do with their time now? :man_shrugging:

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Free to get ignored or unnoticed by drivers in big heavy moving boxes who then have a higher likelihood of killing them. As long as the infrastructure is car centric, things like cross walks save lives.

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Pedestrians can now cross the street outside of an intersection without breaking the law as long as it is safe to do so.

What else saves lives is not having unnecessary interactions with law enforcement for simply existing in various places.

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I wonder, if you were to ask conservatives for their opinions of some of the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition (without telling them where these proverbs came from) how they would rate them?

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Passing through Topeka, decided to swing past Westboro Baptist. It’s small and pathetic. There were these two houses across the street.

ETD the photo of the church itself, because who wants to see that shit

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He’s not comin’ ta get ya, piggie!

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You mean when they’re not joining the Los Angeles-style miles long cop car funeral parades that shut down freeways and roads while siphoning off the alleged protection that our taxes pay for?

This is at the end of the article, so comparatively easy to miss: Supporters say lower-income communities typically do not have the funding or infrastructure to provide safe crosswalks, while the new law could also prevent a jaywalking arrest from turning serious or fatal, citing incidents in San Clemente, the Bay Area and Sacramento over the past few years.

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Let’s hope it’s not possible to turn these off:

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Beau mentions it (not by name) here:

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I’ll bet you could convince them they’re the New Commandments.

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Pray Game Show GIF by ABC Network

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[ETA: The word lost in the link’s ellipsis is “history,” BTW]

We love our neighborhood :smiley:

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Shocking Study Finds Decreased Proteins – Not Amyloid Plaques – Cause Alzheimer’s Disease

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